[Talk-GB] Residential highway with area is not rendering

Paul Berry pmberry2007 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 10:28:41 UTC 2021


Late to the conversation here, for which I apologise, but I've been mapping
such features as both an area *and* a way through the area. Best of both
worlds or poor form? Let me know if you have strong feelings, but it works:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.55336/-1.49485&layers=D

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 11:15, ael via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:36:15AM +0100, Andy Townsend wrote:
> > On 13/04/2021 18:12, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
> > >
> > > I am still waiting for various tiles to be repainted, but it looks as
> > > if most, if not all, fail to show the width, which is sad.
> > > Including, I think, https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html.
> >
> > It'd be a bit tricky to do since the residential width levels at e.g.
> https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/openstreetmap-carto-AJT/blob/master/roads.mss#L753
> > would need to depend both on the zoom level and the actual width (if more
> > than, say, 3), and other work might be needed to make sure that "extra
> wide"
> > residential roads don't appear more prominent on the map than they
> should.
>
> I had speculated that it could be a bit tricky, especially where
> renderers depend largely on the width of a rendering to distinguish
> various sorts of ways. I do feel that the area tag is much nearer to
> reality, but the routing problem seems to beat that here. A pity...
>
> ael
>
>
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